By Malcolm Bowie
Malcolm Bowie is already renowned as a author who has made "theory" and "criticism" intelligible to one another in new methods. during this new assortment he examines the meanings that psychoanalysis has ascribed to the annoying and the units through which later Lacan completes and complexifies Freud's discussions of temporality. "What type of destiny can psychoanalysis have whilst it talks approximately futurity during this fashion?" In answering this question Malcolm Bowie specializes in an exemplary second of main issue within the heritage of psychoanalytic notion. He demanding situations the various primary Freudian assumptions approximately temporality of discourse and attracts awareness to a complete new diversity of possibilities "future-conscious" psychoanalysis may possibly provide critics and theorists of alternative highbrow persuasions.Bowie demands a brand new openness in the direction of paintings between psychoanalytic theorists, drawing his examples from a wide selection of creative practices. Musicians (Mozart, Mahler, Schoenberg and Faur?), visible artists (Michelangelo, Leonardo, Tiepolo and Matisse) and writers (Goethe, Proust and Svevo) are all put in an illuminating two-way dating with the writings of Freud.
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But this ego, once in place, proves to be too strong and too thickly armoured for the individual's own good, and threatens to bring a reverse temporal mechanism into play: against the forwards thrust of anticipation a 26 Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory retrospective movement may be established that leads back to the very fragmentation and 'insufficiency' from which the infant had formerly recoiled. Going forward in time to an 'alienating destination9 (95/2) brings one to the start of a painful and disintegrative journey back.
But to work in this way would be to step outside psychoanalysis and begin doing something quite different. 9 A number of converging themes in Freud's account of human temporality serve, then, to place the future under suspicion, and to keep it there throughout a long theoretical career. Dreams are not prophecies but wish-fulfilments. They provide not advance glimpses of future time, but hallucinatory annulments of such time. Prophets and fortune-tellers talk about future events in naively chronometrical and desire-free terms, and imagine the charm of dreams to lie simply in their allowing us earlier access to a later point in a single untroubled temporal succession.
843-4) The passage culminates in a tribute to metonymy, the rhetorical figure that for Lacan is the very emblem of human desire in its insatiable forward motion. The way towards this moment of summation has been prepared by two related puns: on SEPARARE -> SE PARARE and, before that, on SEPARARE -> SE PARERE. Subjectivity has to do with separation, and also with ornament, dress, decoration, simulation. But the earlier piece of wordplay, on SE PARERE, launches a shimmering parade of witticisms that runs through the entire text: separation 42 Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory is here set against self-appearance, an appearance of the subject for which the subject cannot be held solely accountable, a self-generation that takes place in the eyes of, and at the hands of, the Other and can be conceived only in terms of the otherings, occultations, intervals, and disappearances that it brings with it.